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The Bodhi Tree ("tree of awakening" or "tree of enlightenment" [1]), also called the Bo tree, [2] was a large sacred fig tree (Ficus religiosa) [1] [3] located in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India. Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher who became known as the Buddha , is said to have attained enlightenment, or buddhahood , circa 500 BCE, under that ...
The Bodhi Tree at the Mahabodhi Temple was propagated from the Sri Maha Bodhi, which in turn was propagated from the original Bodhi Tree at this location. In Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia, the tree's massive trunk is often the site of Buddhist or animist shrines. Not all Ficus religiosa are ordinarily called a Bodhi Tree. A true Bodhi Tree ...
The Bodhi Tree is represented by the Bo tree. It comes from the Sinhala word bo, which means the Bodhi tree. This was the enormous, old sacred fig tree (Ficus religiosa - Moraceae) under which Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism and its spiritual teacher, is said to have attained enlightenment. Bodh Gaya is located about 100 kilometres south ...
In Buddhist tradition, this event was said to have occurred under a pipal tree—known as "the Bodhi tree"—in Bodh Gaya, Bihar. [202] As reported by various texts from the Pali Canon, the Buddha sat for seven days under the bodhi tree "feeling the bliss of deliverance". [203]
The Vajrasana in the early 20th century. The Vajrasana, together with the remnants of the ancient temple built by Ashoka, was excavated by archaeologist Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893), who published his discovery and related research of the Mahabodhi Temple in his 1892 book Mahâbodhi, or the great Buddhist temple under the Bodhi tree at Buddha-Gaya.
The sacred Banyan tree is the national tree of India, and the Bodhi Tree under which the Buddha is said to have meditated in Bodh Gaya, is also revered as sacred. Sacred trees are some times planted in sacred groves , which may also have other types of trees too.
The Diamond Throne, bodhimanda of Gautama Buddha. Bodhimaṇḍa (Sanskrit and Pali) or daochang (traditional Chinese: 道場; ; pinyin: dàochǎng; J. dōjō; T. byang chub snying po) is a term used in Buddhism meaning the "seat of awakening" or "platform of enlightenment".
[citation needed] In Buddhism, the Bodhi Tree under which Gautama Buddha gained enlightenment is also of the same species. Adi Shankara derives it from shva (tomorrow) and stha (that which remains). [2] Ashva (horse) and stha (situated), meaning where horses are tied, is another derivation. [3]